Data linkage to national Australian health insurance data to investigate exposure to environmental hazards: the example of residential asbestos

Introduction The enrolment data for Medicare, the Australian universal health insurance provider, covers almost the entire population. Medicare data are commonly used for data linkage, usually to access national medical and pharmaceutical data. However, the enrolment data also enable the identifica...

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Main Authors: Phil Anderson, Rosemary Korda, Hsei Di Law, Martyn Kirk, Tenniel Guiver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/870